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Re: Wallets/Addresses/Keys
by
DannyHamilton
on 25/08/2014, 01:04:58 UTC
I don't think two different public keys can match a private key

Each private key maps to exactly 1 public key, however, there are on average approximately 79,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7.9 X 1028) public keys that map to each bitcoin address.

That being said, you're never going to find any two key pairs that both map to the same bitcoin address.  There are a total of approximately 1,460,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1.46 X 1048) different addresses and a total of approximately 116,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1.16 X 1077) private keys.